Button.



110.778,241. y MTENTED DBC. 27,1904.

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BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.26,1904.

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UNITED STATES Patented Deeembera, 1904.

OT-TO L. HENERLAU, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 778,241, dated December 27, 1904.

i Application led March 26, 1904. SerialNo. 200,088.

T0 all-whom t may con/cern.-

Be it known that I, OTTO L. HENERLAU, a

citizen of theUnited States, residing at Newark, inthe county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thefsame, reference 'being had to the accompanying drawings, and

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which form a part of this specification.

This invention has reference generally to that class of buttons known in the art as link cuff-buttons, collar-buttons, and buttons of a similar nature and character; and the invention relates more particularly to a novel arrangement and construction of a compound and tubular or hollow post or link. for this class of buttons suitably connecting the button or head of the article of manufacture with the base-plate, such compound and tubular' or hollow post being made in two parts, which are suitably united, as by means of solder, and thereby producing a tubular post and which is justas serviceable and strong as the solid post.

The invention consists in the construction of button and compound or two-part tubular or hollow post or link hereinafter set forth;

and, furthermore, this invention consists in the various arrangements and combinations of the parts thereof and a novel process or method of making the same, all of which will be fully described in the following specifica-` tion and then finally embodied in the claim which is appended to and forms an essential part of this specification.

part postor link made according to the method` and embodying the principles of this invention. Fig. I is a longitudinal vertical section of the button. Fig. 5 is a plan or face view eral configuration of the parts of the postare struck up. Fig. 52L is an edge view of a pair of such sheet-metal platesabout to be assembled and soldered together, and Fig. 6 is a `of a blank of sheet metal in which the gentubular or hollow posts or links cut from the connected plates indicated in said Fig. 5a.

Figs. 7 and 8 area side and edge view, respectively, of one of the said two-part posts or links.

Similar characters of reference are employed in the said above-described views to indicate corresponding parts. y

Referring now to the several figures of the drawings, the reference character l indicates the complete button, and the same comprises a head or button'portion2 of any suitable configuration, a base or back plate 3, and a connecting post or link 4t, consisting, essentially, of a pair of channel-shaped sections or members 5 and 6, which are placed against each other, so as to form the longitudinal seams 7 and 8, the said sections or members 5 and 6 being made and being secured together by means of solder to produce compound and hollow or tubular post L in the manner to be presently more fully described and as clearly illustrated in the several figures of the drawings. In practice the post members or sections are' forced out of or struck up from a suitable piece of sheet metal, as 9, lso as to form the two raised and channeled *parts l() and 11, the central part of the blank being cut away, as at l2, to provide an opening, as shown, and the said raised or channeled parts 10 and 1l being respectively made with the curved end members 13 and 14. From an inspection of Fig. 5 it will be seen that the two end members 13 of the parts l() and ll are integrally connected, as at 15, and the two end members 14 are also integrally connected, as at 16. To produce two complete compound and hollow or tubular posts or links 4, (see Fig. 6,) I neXt take two of such blanks of sheet metal which have been provided with the raised and channeled parts 10 and 1l and secure these blanks together, preferably by means of solder or otherwise, back to back, as clearly indicated in Fig. 5EL of the drawings, in which figure the said blanks ot' sheet metal are represented in such positions just about to be assembled. The two connected plates of sheet metal 9 will thus be provided with a pair of compound and tubular or hollow posts connected at their foot portions, as at 15 and 16, as will be evident from the drawings. All that is now required is to trim away the parts of the connected blanks 9 which surround the said parts 10, 11, 13, and 14, and by cutting across the line x in said Fig. 5 a pair of complete compound and hollow and tubular two-part posts 4 will be the result, as clearly indicated in Fig. 6 of the drawings, each post or link 4 being provided at its lower portions with a bracket-like foot-piece. A post 4, as indicated in Figs. 7 and 8, is then taken, and its upper portion is connected and secured tothe head or button portion 2, pret'- erably by being inserted in a suitable opening 17 in the lower face of said button or head 2, and then soldered fast, and at the same time the bracket-like foot portion or divided end portions of the completed post or link 4 are soldered fast upon the back plate or base 3, as will be clearly evident from an inspection of Figs. 2 and 4 of the drawings. Thus it tions for more securely connecting the post or link 4 with the plate 3, and while providing a cheap construction and a post oi reduced weight over the solid post still a very strong and rigid arrangement ot' the various parts is clearly the linal result after the post is finally assembled in its secured relation between the head or button portion 2 and the base-plate 3.

I am aware that some changes may be made in the general arrangement and in the assembling of the parts, as well as in the details el the construction of the same, without departing from the scope of my present invention. Hence I do not limit my invention to the exact arrangements and combinations oi' theI parts as described in the foregoing specification and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, nor do I conline myself to the exact details o1 the construction of the said parts.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is The impro'ved button herein described, consisting of the combination of a head and base, with a compound post comprising a pair oi straight-edged longitudinal halves of semicircular cross-section soldered together along their upper portions to provide an upper single tubular post portion, and each hall' ha\'- ing lower end members extending in opposite directions and forming bracket-like iootpieces, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereunto set my hand this 24th day of March, 1904.

OTTO L. IIICNERLAU.

Vitnesses: i

Fnnnk. C. FRAnN'rznL, Guo. D. RICHARDS. 

